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Jacob Atkinson letter to Thomas Rotch, April 21, 1818

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A-40-14
April 21, 1818
Thomas Rotch
Sir,
We have received your letter
informing us hat you had finished our wool &
Your letter alludes to no difficulty and suppose a prompt
accession to your propositions & your terms. That
they were inadmissible both as to price & the time
of payment you will know & as they are not
varied I know not why you presume they are
admissible now. I feel it my duty nor do I deem it
impertinent to repeat my supprise, at an attempt to
violate a contract, by a man who pretends to be
an example to mankind. No matter whether a contract
be written or unwritten, if it is understood, if it is implied
it is equally binding & obligatory & if the cavalier, the petty
Sophister can evade the law he cannot evade the visitation
of conscience nor the ultimate submission to justice.
Did you not agree to manufacture our wool so cheap as
to make it our Interest to employ you again and to
wait for the pay untill we realized it from the sale of
cloth. It is not enough to have subjected us in our
circumstances to the inconvenience of having a considerable

A-40-14
April 21, 1818
Thomas Rotch
Sir,
We have received your letter
informing us hat you had finished our wool &
Your letter alludes to no difficulty and suppose a prompt
accession to your propositions & your terms. That
they were inadmissible both as to price & the time
of payment you will know & as they are not
varied I know not why you presume they are
admissible now. I feel it my duty nor do I deem it
impertinent to repeat my supprise, at an attempt to
violate a contract, by a man who pretends to be
an example to mankind. No matter whether a contract
be written or unwritten, if it is understood, if it is implied
it is equally binding & obligatory & if the cavalier, the petty
Sophister can evade the law he cannot evade the visitation
of conscience nor the ultimate submission to justice.
Did you not agree to manufacture our wool so cheap as
to make it our Interest to employ you again and to
wait for the pay untill we realized it from the sale of
cloth. It is not enough to have subjected us in our
circumstances to the inconvenience of having a considerable